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The Incomplete Scheme 48 Reference Manual for release 1.5
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<a href="manual-Z-H-2.html#node_toc_node_chap_1">Introduction</a></h1>
<p>Scheme&nbsp;48 is an implementation of the Scheme programming language as
described in the Revised<sup>5</sup> Report on the Algorithmic Language
Scheme&nbsp;[<a href="manual-Z-H-12.html#node_bib_6">6</a>].
It is based on a compiler and interpreter for a virtual Scheme
machine.  Scheme&nbsp;48 tries to be faithful to the Revised<sup>5</sup> Scheme
Report, providing neither more nor less in the initial user
environment.  (This is not to say that more isn't available in other
environments; see below.)</p>
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Scheme&nbsp;48 is under continual development.
Please report bugs, especially in the VM, especially core dumps, to
scheme-48-bugs@s48.org.  Include the version number x.yy
from the &quot;Welcome to Scheme&nbsp;48 x.yy&quot; greeting message in your bug
report.  It is a goal of this project to produce a bullet-proof
system; we want no bugs and, especially, no crashes.  (There are a few
known bugs, listed in the <tt>doc/todo.txt</tt> file that comes with the
distribution.)</p>
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Send mail to scheme-48-request@s48.org to be put on a
mailing list for announcements, discussion, bug reports, and bug
fixes.</p>
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The name `Scheme&nbsp;48' commemorates our having written the original version
in forty-eight hours, on August 6th and 7th, 1986.</p>
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